Technicians working under flat-rate or incentive pay systems usually earn more than employees in shops with hourly rates -- provided they are confident and work reasonably quickly. Most companies use one system. However, even in many flat-rate shops there are tasks for which pay is based on work done on the clock.
Top 10 facts about the world. The deciliter is a unit of volume measurement used in the metric system. It is equal to one tenth of a liter, or about 3.3 fluid ounces. It should not be confused with the decaliter, which is equal to 10 liters, a substantially different volume measurement. The measurement can crop up in a variety of settings, most commonly in recipes from countries which use the metric system, and in some bars, where it may be a drink size.
A measure of statistical dispersion is a nonnegative real number that is zero if all the data are the same and increases as the data become more diverse. Most measures of dispersion have the same units as the quantity being measured. In other words, if the measurements are in metres or seconds, so is the measure of dispersion. Such measures of dispersion include: 1  Sample standard deviation.